AutoMate - Car Dashboard

BitSpice

In-app purchases

About this app

AutoMate makes common services available to while you're driving. With AutoMate, you get the right information at the right time, so you can focus on the road.

Basic features
• Maps – Search for directions and launch your favorite navigation app for turn-by-turn directions.
• Places – Search for nearby places such as gas stations and restaurants, with one click.
• Phone – Call your favorite contacts, see call log, and easily dial a number
• Messaging – Send and reply to SMS messages, hands free replying available for many popular messaging apps
• Voice – Take control of the app through voice commands for navigation, music, and more
• Contextual Information - Receive weather updates, see recent searches, receive speed limit alerts, and more
• Media Control – Control many popular media apps using buttons or gestures
• Shortcuts – Keep your favorite apps and Android shortcuts at your fingertips. Includes quick settings toggles.
• Data – View real-time engine data from an OBDII adapter with Torque integration.

Premium Features
• Set AutoMate as a launcher while it is running
• Hands free gestures! Wave your hand over the device to perform different actions
• Traffic camera alerts, never get a red light or speed camera ticket again!
• Customize wallpapers for day and night themes
• Startup options to make AutoMate even more effortless to use

Links
• About: http://www.bitspice.net/automate/
• FAQ: https://support.bitspice.net/portal/kb/automate
• Join the beta: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.bitspice.automate

Permissions:
• This app uses the Device Administrator permission. It is used to automatically lock the screen, if that option is enabled. Otherwise, we do not request this permission.
• This app uses Accessibility services. We request this permission on devices older than Android 4.4 to mirror certain notifications on AutoMate's home screen.
• Other permissions used explained in more detail here: https://support.bitspice.net/portal/kb/articles/automate-permissions-explained

Ratings and reviews

Just what I needed!!! Integrates with G maps, Spotify and has premium features to download also. So impressed. Only one issue is that the built in maps is so slow and u reliable opposed to Gmaps itself. Please fix the issue as the arrow in the maps is laggy and so slow!!! Even the route of the roads are not coloured safely and properly. Other then that it's epic! Using it on my tablet

Boils down to just another launcher. A lot of what it achieves could be done with widgets, especially given it hands off to other apps, that don't have driving modes, rather than providing a driving friendly interface. What interface it does provide are normal size UI elements, so too small (I'd say dangerous) to use while driving. 2* because it's at least a stable, nice looking, and feature full application.

Not great. Very crashy, and more often than not, even if it doesn't crash, the screen locks up. Very poorly developed too-for instance, the back/forward buttons on the audio player are tiny, as small as they can be, which is just stupid and thoughtless-isn't the whole point of a driving app to give you a big, simple UI where necessary? Apparently not...Galaxy S21, pro version of app.

What's new

Android 11 startup crash fix